Secret Creek T

So I find it somewhat comical to read articles and blogs referring to secret lake X etc. with regards to people fishing. But I get a little bit what these writers are feeling. Fish are not video games, they are moderately intelligent creatures. If every time you had a cheeseburger you got ripped fifty feet up in the air accosted by an alien and had a big hook ripped through your cheek you would avoid cheeseburgers pretty quickly. Fish are no different so the most over fished locations end up with the most savvy fish.

Opeechee Point for example is over fished. I could have set a table with white linen and those guys wouldn't bite. Granted I'm an amateur but compare that with Secret Creek T (as in trout) where I went today. I was fiddling around with Google Earth last night and I was looking at a river I had fished a few times and maybe 1,000 yards up stream there was a nice bend that looked to open up a little resulting in a slower current. When I got there it was perfect, overhanging trees, scrub on both sides, structure in the form of branches and rocks under water, slow current, and nice flat ground on which to stand.

So I started off using last night's schnitzel as bait, a few nibbles but no takers. Then I switched to my minnows and caught three little rock bass (nothing worth keeping about a fish stick each) in about fifteen minutes. After that I wanted to switch back to the schnitzel as I had seen some fish that had a little different shape and were a little larger. Using my soon-to-be-patented schnitzel lure I caught an 11" 3/4 pound brown trout. All told I caught four fish in about an hour and I was home filleting my trout by 6:15. For the record, the larger fish was much easier to fillet.